Dollar Reviews
Film
Our goal is to simplify the film review business. No plot recaps, no spoilers, only insight. Because, when you think about it - its all just a numbers game. How much it cost to make. How much it grosses. How many stars it gets. But the most important one of all: How much of your money is it worth? #IdBuyThatForADollar if it is, and we'll even throw in our two cents for free.
Location:
Long Beach, CA
Description:
Our goal is to simplify the film review business. No plot recaps, no spoilers, only insight. Because, when you think about it - its all just a numbers game. How much it cost to make. How much it grosses. How many stars it gets. But the most important one of all: How much of your money is it worth? #IdBuyThatForADollar if it is, and we'll even throw in our two cents for free.
Twitter:
@dollarreviews
Language:
English
Email:
dollar.review@gmail.com
Episodes
Debt to Cinema 113: Drumline
6/10/2022
Over a year later, and another surprise episode – this one on something I will always take the time to revere. To say I grew up on this Southern college classic is a bit of an understatement, but for viewers like Steve, its never the wrong time to jump in on the film that made […]
Duration:00:40:39
Debt to Cinema 112: My Bloody Valentine 3D
2/18/2021
If you like trashy early 2000s remake horror, have we got an episode for you (especially since we reviewed the original years ago.) While that film is labelled 1981, this is vehemently not classified as 2009, because if you’re not watching it in three dimensions you are basically not watching it all. Perfect for heathens, […]
Duration:00:49:57
Debt to Cinema 111: The Seventh Seal
12/23/2020
With social dynamics shifting, movies moving further out of the cinema, and having conversations over the internet being more en vogue than ever, we felt a debt at the end of 2020 to say something again. The episode was supposed to be topical and on a film set within a similar plague, but Steven’s subtitle […]
Debt to Cinema 110: eXistenZ
1/16/2019
Once things start, it’s hard to know when, if ever, they’ll truly come to a stop. Some stories are circles, never going anywhere, save the place from which they originated. If you’re wondering if I’m making statements about this film, our long dormant podcast, or the evolved social commentary via Videodrome, just wait for the […]
Duration:00:55:26
Debt to Cinema 109: Eraserhead
11/2/2017
One hundred and nine is a big number, some might call it scary, or at the very least, daunting, and yet it only tells one story about Dollar Reviews. Join us for this seemingly final hurrah as we reflect on the mad genius of David Lynch and his first journey into the subterranean terror of […]
Duration:00:47:50
Debt to Cinema 108: The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)
10/25/2017
Some films are claimed to be so bad that they are scary, so with Halloween still in the air, and Ron Perlman in the cast, we decided to see what all the fuss is about. What we got is a legendary history of a troubled production, stars impersonating each other on film, awesome makeup, and […]
Duration:00:24:47
Debt to Cinema 107: Nosferatu
10/18/2017
Some things once seen can never be unseen and Count Orlok is perhaps the first filmic example of that maxim. Without jump scares, audio cues, gore, or even color, F. W. Murnau gave the world a creature so horrifying that cinema is still trying to catch up 100 years later #IdBuyThatForADollar
Duration:00:44:33
Debt to Cinema 106: The City of Lost Children
10/11/2017
Its not everyday that we watch a film that is strikingly different than cinema on the whole, but this beautiful, dark, twisted, French fantasy really is something to behold. Equal parts Laika, Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, and German Expressionism, Marc Caro and Jean Pierre-Jeunet take us somewhere that can only exist in dreams or nightmares […]
Duration:00:29:52
Debt to Cinema 105: Cronos
10/4/2017
Time is a curious thing, the more we have of it, the less we care; however, every October I fully embrace death and view those scary little films I tell myself I never have time for. Starting the season off proper is this foreign treat, Guillermo del Toro’s first film – his reinvention of vampirism, […]
Duration:00:30:48
Debt to Cinema 104: Toy Soldiers
9/27/2017
I might have vetoed Steve’s decision to pick this one a year ago, but after the way I talked up Scent of a Woman as one of the best prep school films of the 90s, he made me want to eat those words. This thing is a true forgotten relic of the decade with a […]
Duration:00:37:09
Debt to Cinema 103: Scent of a Woman
9/21/2017
It’s ironically fitting that I would find myself sick at the time of publishing this episode as it stands as one of my go to feel good movies. Regardless of what life may throw your way, coming of age/companion films such as these, even if this one is a little long and cacophonous, know exactly […]
Duration:00:31:03
Debt to Cinema 102: A Few Good Men
9/13/2017
Its been a long time coming, that’s a truth I can handle, but good, goddamn was this an overdue view on my part. Some flicks are regarded as classics for a specific reason, and this one, down to the ancient plastering of “The End” over the closing moments lives up to that moniker #IdBuyThatForADollar
Duration:00:32:58
Debt to Cinema 101: The Jerk
8/30/2017
How sweet it is to bring Steve the gift that keeps on giving: trashy comedy gems from my list of favorites. This one is whacky, romantic, and too centered on getting a chuckle to be too offensive, right? Despite Carl Reiner’s first collab with the poor black child of this film being highly regarded, I […]
Duration:00:25:06
Debt to Cinema 100: 100 Rifles
8/23/2017
Contrary to common belief, the longer you do something doesn’t make it easier to do. Join us for our second triple digit episode where I chronicle just how tiring certain screenings can be despite having fun moments. Burt Reynolds, Jim Brown, Raquel Welch, and Jerry Goldsmith’s score go a long way here, but this one’s […]
Duration:00:32:51
Debt to Cinema 099: Swingers
8/9/2017
For every guy behind the guy, there tends to be an equally qualified gal and I couldn’t think of a better selection to introduce the one that has my back. Ashley has been watching a ton of flicks with me lately and you have no idea how money that is #IdBuyThatForADollar
Duration:00:31:20
Debt to Cinema 098: Shadows
8/2/2017
Independent filmmaking is what brought life back into cinema, and given that we primarily sought our educations in the medium based on the exploits of artists working outside the constructs of the studio system, its only fitting that we would finally get around to watching the first of John Cassavetes’s canon – possibly the first […]
Duration:00:29:52
Debt to Cinema 097: Léon (The Professional)
7/27/2017
Inspired by Steve’s pick the week before and doubly so once Ashley decreed we would watch Valerian together, I decided to give Luc Besson another go. Whereas Nikita was a deep cut, Leon is the film that made his career and I finally gave it the view it deserved #IdBuyThatForADollar
Duration:00:29:43
Debt to Cinema 096: La Femme Nikita
7/19/2017
Leave it to America to make a proudly Parisian film even more French, this Luc Besson romantic thriller bleeds angst and oozes style. Before the two remakes and equally as many American TV adaptations, this is the breakthrough international piece of cinema which made the EuropaCorp president an action impresario and household name #IdBuyThatForADollar
Duration:00:38:52
Dollar Reviews 042: The Big Sick/Spider-man: Homecoming/War for the Planet of the Apes
7/18/2017
Welcome to our first triple feature, starting with the true romcom of Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon’s lives #IdBuyThatForADollar, followed by Sony’s third go at Spidey (24:23), and finally Matt Reeves’s conclusion to the Apes trilogy (48:23) #IBTFAD. Also, Steve shares thoughts on The Exception (1:20:07), Kirikou and the Sorceress (1:24:19), and a double […]
Duration:01:55:27
Debt to Cinema 095: Detention (2011)
7/12/2017
Its not everyday that a piece of media aims to de(con)struct the genre/subcategory it falls into, but of the last 20 years, most of the best satire has come from films of that ilk. Scream, Last Action Hero, Cabin in the Woods, Scott Pilgrim, and now Joseph Kahn’s crazy, fast, smorgasbord of the milennial high […]
Duration:00:33:51